Lagos, Nigeria, 1983

Film of Nigerian life in and around Lagos, Nigeria, taken during a visit in 1983.

[@Tefera-hf8fw]

Landed in nigeria/Lagos in 77 during Festac festival everything was alien for a 10yr but grew to love it I have travelled around the world but Nothing like Nigeria and Nigerians most hospitable and generous people from north to south I still pay visits to old age friends. E go better

[@johnbuckle5937]

I lived in Lagos in 1981. Oh I love eba n kpomor. No be joke I dey tell you now.

[@Joel-wh5hp]

One of my mom’s favorite songs. She is well alive and kicking. Nostalgic times of the 80s love it.

[@rlpittsjr]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!

[@PermanentWater]

Please remind me the name of the song and the artist

[@Liesel81-across-all-borders]

I was 3 years in 1983, thanks for sharing this. Gosh the music reminds of my dad and being a child. Is it weird that sometimes I wish I could be a little girl again to take it all in again,

[@JohnFekoloid]

$1 = N1 then because Nigeria had manufacturing industries and was exporting goods instead of importing anyhow that we are doing today. Now $1=N700 because of anyhow importation and that has brought along with it, massive poverty. Reckless importation killed the country.

[@bani491]

Why did you go back to Nigeria

[@Liesel81-across-all-borders]

@@bani491 because no matter how far you wonder you can never deny the attachment to where you come from. I didnt go back as in move back to i go back as often as i can .

[@reelspilltv]

I was 6 years old in 1983 in Nigeria. Shagari was president. I also wish I could go back and relive it because the truth is that: adulthood is a fraud😊

[@reelspilltv]

@@JohnFekoloid yes, but recent weakening of the naira is due to hoarders of Naira stashed away in rooms, soakaways, and warehouses by businessmen, criminals and corrupt politicians, now selling their naira for dollars, euros and pounds.

[@Believernomics]

Wow this takes me back. I arrived in Nigeria from the UK, in Spetember 1979. I was nearly 13 years old at the time. It was a massive culture shock. I really struggled for a while and hated school.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

You can say the same thing about me In Accra Ghana after returning in 1994. I couldn't speak English only the French Language. In some ways Africa and Nigeria have not changed much except for the passage of time and Technology.

[@mapeauxnoire]

My memories of Lagos, gosh nostalgia and the song ...

[@rlpittsjr]

Glad you like. I wanted to make sure I had the right song for the time.

[@2b4d]

I remembers then when i was a little teenager, That was exactly the time of operation Ghana must go.

[@aquarius4705]

I was 3 years old, appreciate for sharing this historic moments....

[@kevwegodfrey]

Thanks for this ❤️

[@juliekeku6087]

1983... i was nowhere on the surface of the earth 😂😂😂. Feels great to watch though...

[@proyouservicesltd3652]

Nice throwback video and sweet background music.

[@dominickayode9562]

Thanks for sharing.

[@tobiasjohn5654]

great memories in the 1980s and i was not born at that time but of the early 1990s of 1991 to be precise

[@Joel-wh5hp]

80s was fun while growing up

[@ericmuhammed2859]

I turned 11 in 1980' and I turned 14 in 1983'

[@almasmith2733]

This music is so tight. Really great, beautiful. I remember visiting UYO, CROSS RIVER now AQUAIBOM? STATE.Was like home, I am from BELICE.

[@rlpittsjr]

I tried to find a popular.song from that era. I am glad it works well.

[@user-st8kn1bf1x]

I taught at the American school from 1980 to 83. Best years of my life.

[@Tefera-hf8fw]

where was it located please?

[@gwinyaidhliwayo4878]

Was there in naija 1975 to 1985🙏💝1!$ Thanks for the memories🇳🇬🇿🇼1!$ Went to American International School Victoria Island🏫🎒1!$

[@zimzim3081]

That is presently the most expensive secondary school in Nigeria. Close to 6 million naira annually

[@rlpittsjr]

aislagosalumni.org/

[@naturalblockade3412]

@@zimzim3081 are you sure that it is the most expensive?

[@stevecairns5859]

Many thanks for this! We didn't get there until 1990, but what memories!

[@rlpittsjr]

It was fun putting together. I knew my Dad got to visit 10 years before we moved there.

[@lekantokunbo3052]

Maybe that woman carrying a child was my mom and that child was me😊 I was a toddler that year, and that place (Tinubu) was close to my house then. Fond memories. How time fades!

[@user-rx4ze1hy7r]

😂

[@uchejoseph6829]

When there was a little piece in Nija. When buhari and his cohost started confusing Nigerians till date.

[@naturalblockade3412]

But Buhari became president just about 7 years ago. Why blame him for every set back? Since the video is about Lagos, why not blame the governor of Lagos state?

[@abiodunpk1011]

@@naturalblockade3412He became head of state on the first day of 1984

[@cocobutterchin6768]

Gone Are The Days Lagosian. I Was Born In Island Maternity Hospital 🏥

[@cocobutterchin6768]

60s

[@rlpittsjr]

Thank you everyone for your comments! I just found out that part of this footage my Dad took is a part of a new documentary "Ugo: A Homecoming Story" seeing NBA player Giannis Ugo Antetokounmpo see his parents home country for his first time. Check it out!

[@effiongossom3568]

Memories

[@Tampinu]

Deep...

[@frosshub7971]

Watching the video showing the old state of nigeria community gives me kinda dejavu😂glad i was born little late after tho😁😁

[@gaddafiabdullahi6028]

Please how can I get this music

[@bernard7007]

I was just a year old.

[@therealist2866]

IGNORANCE IS BLISS! 😂 How anyone can look at these images of ramshackle Nigerian cities of pre-social media and 24-hour global television 1970s and 1980s, and still believe the oldies propaganda that Nigeria was (objectively) “better” in the 1970s/80s is LAUGHABLE! The primary “issue” with Nigeria these days is that our collective standards and expectations are obviously HIGHER!

[@rlpittsjr]

I do hope to visit again some day!

[@kasherimilkong1036]

Better values, better naira value(naira was stronger than dollar in the 70s,)...population 50 - 57 million then and the good road network then was in tandem with the population, public schools and universities of high standard, no cultism or sorting, no terrorism then, more than 200 textile companies in the country working and employing people, railways working and employing people, Nigerian Airways working, NEPA light working 24/7 even in the rural areas that have electricity . Zero or no corruption, no police pos points along the roads......that was Nigeria that was better than your IT compliant skyscraper ladden fake flashy car infested and fake vanity style life that is really SHIIIT with rotten values and poor service delivery worst than half a century ago. Very pathetic if we don't realise than we have fallen and need to go back in time and pick lessons from the past to get healed and get up.

[@therealist2866]

@@kasherimilkong1036 🤣🤣🤣🤣 someone clearly swallowed the Kool-Aid hook, line and sinker….smh “No corruption”? Corruption was the primary reason given by the officers who carried out the first bloody coup d’etat of 1966. Same reason for the 1975 coup that removed Gowon. In fact, Nigeria was such a MESS that by 1967, barely 7 years after Independence, there’d been 2 coups, 2 barbaric genocidal pogroms in the North, an attempted succession led by Isaac Boro in the Niger Delta, 2 states of emergencies in the West and in the Middle Belt, the political trial and imprisonment of the opposition leader in the centre, and ultimately a civil war that resulted in the tragic deaths of reportedly a couple of million (mostly civilian) folks - and the chronic impoverishment of millions more. Meanwhile, not sure what ‘fabu’ your parents or their generation has been feeding you, but thankfully we all have relatively free access to historical information these days and a cursory search will reveal that ECN/NEPA has NEVER provided reliable electricity in post-civil war Nigeria (talk less of 24/7 supply). Similarly, up until 2001, there were barely 400K phone lines for a population approaching 200m, despite the billions poured into the infamous ITT Contract and several other telecommunications projects, and while there were textile mills due to the prevalence of CHEAP UNEDUCATED labor, our ports were clogged with importation of cement (which we now export) and other basic goods. IGNORANCE IS BLISS! Accordingly, those who knew no better in the 1960s/70s/80s misguidedly believe that Nigeria’s performance in the world was comparatively “better”. SMH

[@Tefera-hf8fw]

I used to drive to kaduna from lagos at night without a care of armed robbers@@kasherimilkong1036

[@joyandpeacefullaughter5307]

Is this lagos island?

[@rlpittsjr]

Yes, and Victoria Island.

[@nnaemekastephen]

I was born 18years later today married with two wife two lovely daughter 💖 Glory be together happy to be a Father

[@tunjioba5683]

2 wives? You are the man!

[@vickylanding2830]

Not of God married with two wife's repent Repent

[@naturalblockade3412]

Polygamist or did you commit bigamy?

[@chukwudumanyadike9452]

When The country is save. No Alaye

[@Joel-wh5hp]

You can say that again.

[@TravelIwuala]

So 1960's Nigeria camera was so bad like this 🤦

[@rlpittsjr]

My father was still using 8mm in the early 80s. He changed to cassette tape camera by 1985.

[@TravelIwuala]

@@rlpittsjr Oh okay

[@JohnFekoloid]

A white man recorded this video. We Nigerians didn't even have any video cameras at all. And you're making mouth.

[@davidshosanyajames9161]

Bro is possible... The video look old truely

[@mohammedsonnie3143]

It looks like a video of the 60s, not the 80s

[@rlpittsjr]

My dad was still using 8mm in the early 80s. He switched to cassette tape camera by 1985.

[@hilaryodinamba7199]

60's cars are bigger. I can spot a Mercedes and other coupes in this video.

[@kevwegodfrey]

Thanks for this ❤️